Forty years after the Watergate burglary, the Washington Post reporters who blew the lid off the scandal say that the scope of President Richard Nixon's misdeeds was far worse than they originally thought.

In a lengthy retrospective for this Sunday's Post, Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward revisit the story that made them famous, and explain why Watergate was just a small window into the "massive campaign of political espionage, sabotage and other illegal activities" that were the "way of life" in Nixon's White House.

The story is, in part, an attempt to debunk what Woodward and Bernstein view as the commonly accepted myth that the Watergate cover up was worse than the crime. Through a series of shocking anecdotes and recordings, the reporters reveal new details about the depth of Nixon's racism, paranoia, and corruption.